You just examined a patient with COPD exacerbation with a trainee.
Your trainee asks, "What is the evidence behind non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV)?" You remember a few papers about it, but not the specifics about the studies. Are there quick sites to search on the fly without looking up Google or Wikipedia?
Introducing:
EBM on the go
This website contains a list of high-quality sites with Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) literature. Some sites have commentary, and some have quick sections that can be skimmed. It is built by Dr. J Thull-Freedman, a pediatric emergency physician at Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario.
Here is a search via DARE (Database of Abstracts of Review of Effects):
This is a great platform to search the most updated information quickly. I am definitely going to use it at work!
